1. They teach the idiotic notion that our involvement in that European war was vital.
It wasn't.
2. Because they were relatively evenly matched.
3. Lend lease was one aspect, but U.S. forces occupying part of the German war machine was another.
4. What about the fact that your "fact" is utterly false?
5. War economies tend to create a boom, this is true. But the cost in lives was nowhere near worth it.
6. I'll go with the University of Hawaii study on democide. They are considered authoritative.
1. It was vital for US: it pulled US out of an economic near-collapse.
2. Err?.. With such analytical skills, I hope you work for Pentagon!
3. The second front was open only after it became clear that the Soviet Union will roll through Europe and the whole of Germany. UK and US were eager not to let it happen.
4. So, they didn't teach you that at school? I wonder, why?
From an article written by Paul Plaganis (Legislative Representative T.C.U. District #861 Albany, NY) based on a report presented to the Committee of the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, United States Senate, February 26, 1974, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1974, pp. 16-24.
“In 1938 Ford opened a truck assembly plant in Berlin whose "real purpose," according to U.S. Army Intelligence, was producing "troop transport-type" vehicles for the Wehrmacht. That year Ford's chief executive received the Nazi German Eagle (first class)....
in September 1939 GM and Ford subsidiaries built nearly 90 percent of the armored "mule" 3- ton half-trucks and more than 70 percent of the Reich's medium and heavy-duty trucks. These vehicles, according to American intelligence reports, served as "the backbone of the German Army transportation system."....
After the cessation of hostilities, GM and Ford demanded reparations from the U.S. Government for wartime damages sustained by their Axis facilities as a result of Allied bombing...Ford received a little less than $1 million, primarily as a result of damages sustained by its military truck complex at Cologne...”
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...0IDgBQ&usg=AFQjCNFrYrco08D5R_XZvfr7EmMoS3MiSw
“Ford vehicles were crucial to the revolutionary Nazi military strategy of blitzkrieg. Of the 350,000 trucks used by the motorized German Army as of 1942, roughly one-third were Ford-made. The Schneider report states that when American troops reached the European theater, "Ford trucks prominently present in the supply lines of the Wehrmacht were understandably an unpleasant sight to men in our Army." Indeed, the Cologne plant proved to be so important to the Reich's war effort that the Allies bombed it on several occasions. A secret 1944 US Air Force "Target Information Sheet" on the factory said that for the previous five years it had been "geared for war production on a high level."
“…the Nazis never nationalized Ford's German property… Dearborn maintained its 52 percent share through the duration of the war…. By 1943 half of Ford Werke's work force comprised foreign captives, including French, Russians, Ukrainians and Belgians. In August of 1944 a squad of SS men brought fifteen prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp to Ford Werke.”
Major U.S. multi-nationals were also very well represented in the later Heinrich Himmler Circle and made cash contributions to the S.S. (the Sonder Konto S) up to 1944 — while World War II was in progress.
Almost a quarter of the 1944 Sonder Konto S contributions came from subsidiaries of International Telephone and Telegraph, represented by Kurt von Schröder. The 1943 payments from I.T.T. subsidiaries to the Special Account were as follows:
Mix & Genest A.G. 5,000 RM
C. Lorenz AG 20,000 RM
Felten & Guilleaume 25,000 RM
Kurt von Schroder 16,000 RM
And the 1944 payments were:
Mix & Genest A.G. 5,000 RM
C. Lorenz AG 20,000 RM
Felten & Guilleaume 20,000 RM
Kurt von Schroder 16,000 RM
Sosthenes Behn of International Telephone and Telegraph transferred wartime control of Mix & Genest, C. Lorenz, and the other Standard Telephone interests in Germany to Kurt von Schroder — who was a founding member of the Keppler Circle and organizer and treasurer of Himmler's Circle of Friends.”
“Collaboration between American businessmen and Nazis in Axis Europe was paralleled by protection of Nazi interests in the United States. In 1939 American I.G. was renamed General Aniline & Film, with General Dyestuffs acting as its exclusive sales agent in the U.S. These names effectively disguised the fact that American I.G. (or General Aniline & Film) was an important producer of major war materials, including atabrine, magnesium, and synthetic rubber….
An American citizen, Halbach, became president of General Dyestuffs in 1930 and acquired majority control in 1939 from Dietrich A. Schmitz, a director of American I.G. and brother of Hermann Schmitz, director of I.G. Farben in Germany and chairman of the board of American I.G. until the outbreak of war in 1939. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Treasury blocked Halbach's bank accounts. In June 1942 the Alien Property Custodian seized Halbach's stock in General Dyestuffs and took over the firm as an enemy corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Subsequently, the Alien Property Custodian appointed a new board of directors to act as trustee for the duration of the war. These actions were reasonable and usual practice, but when we probe under the surface another and quite abnormal story emerges.
Between 1942 and 1945 Halbach was nominally a consultant to General Dyestuffs. In fact Halbach ran the company, at $82,000 per year, Louis Johnson, former Assistant Secretary of War, was appointed president of General Dyestuffs by the 'U.S. Government, for which he received $75,000 a year. Louis Johnson attempted to bring pressure to bear on the U.S. Treasury to unblock Halbach's blocked funds and allow Halbach to develop policies contrary to the interests of the U.S., then at war with Germany. The argument used to get Halbach's bank accounts unblocked was that Halbach was running the company and that the Government-appointed board of directors "would have been lost without Mr. Halbach's knowledge."
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...74DYBQ&usg=AFQjCNHjDZIy0oKUB4IlXeny_fJn50hlrQ
“George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany….
Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world. ..
More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz.”
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...8oGABg&usg=AFQjCNFqGZbquPu6PD39S27TRcpdMSE71Q
5. To whom?! Your financial, industrial and military-industrial elites managed to re-built their empires out of WW2!
6. "They are considered authoritative" by whom? By US propaganda consumers?
I asked you the SOURCES of your numbers! The PRIME sources! You know why you don't want to name them? Because the figure of "65 million" was thrown into circulation by Soldhenitsun -- a FICTION WRITER!!!!!!!!
That's the prime source of all your "authoritative historians" -- FICTION! A FIGMENT of someone's IMAGINATION!
Have a look at the figures for demographic changes in Russian Empire/Soviet Union, and show me your "murdered 65 million"!
